No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.

View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.